About the Intersex Rights Movement

A deep read on the Intersex Rights Movement, some of its key activists, and the struggle of intersex people in a society that incorrectly assumes physical sex and anatomy are always binary.

But now activists are turning that argument around: Instead of talking about intersex people as medical subjects, they are speaking the language of identity, human rights and pride. They want doctors, parents and society at large to take a less rigid approach to sexual identity — and especially to reconsider the assumption that, to identify as a man or a woman, a person needs the gonads, genitals and chromosomes to match.

SOURCE: The Washington Post • AUTHOR: Nora Caplan-Bricker • LAST UPDATED: October 5, 2017